User talk:Twyla-garrett

Twyla Garrett - Twyla Garrett is an Businesswoman who is President of Investment Management Enterprise (IME) Inc. Twyla Garrett  is an extraordinary entrepreneur, corporate speaker, homeland security expert, and compelling author., who travels the country speaking about business and entrepreneurship.

Early life - Twyla was born in Cleveland, Ohio. At young age of 14, she was isolated from her mother and siblings. Garrett was supported by a single father. Twyla had to suffer psychological, sexual, and verbal abuse, before the court-order to live with her father. Education - Despite Twyla has faced upheaval in her life, she was a good student during his studies. Ohio is Twyla’s native place, where she attended John Marshall High School, Ursuline College for Business Administration and University of Phoenix for MA, Organizational Management. At the Dartmouth University Tuck Business School, she attended the Executive Management Program. While in high school Twyla learned to prepare complex tax returns and used her mathematical intuition to advance her business curiosity in college. Business Career - From an early age,  Twyla had an entrepreneurial spirit. Twyla Garrett started off working with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service in downtown Cleveland but soon she moved to San Diego to hold positions of deputy controller at NADEP and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Manager for Space and Naval Warfare System Command (SPAWAR). She left the federal government and started her own management consulting firm, Investment Management Enterprise (IME).

In 2000, Twyla Garrett started a management consulting firm, Investment Management Enterprises (IME.) IME is known for providing consulting services to assorted governmental departments, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). IME is currently working on several inaugural preparation exercises. The company provides homeland security, disaster preparedness and IT innovation services.

But this is not enough for Twyla. In year 2003, She opened her first nightclub, Club Escape, in Richmond, Virginia. There Twyla provided at-risk teens the opportunity to learn about the restaurant business first-hand. Twyla’s willpower to give back to the community drove her to do more. As her business took flight. Twyla Garrett provide a give back to Cleveland, a 1.5 million dollar entertainment complex designed to single-handily add to the improvement of Cleveland’s economic culture.

Awards and honors : At The White House, She has been personally invited to speak on the issues of creating jobs, economic growth and the controversial fiscal cliff of 2012. Twyla’s memoir published in 2013 and it has followed by a series of “how-to” business books. Presently, Twyla’s business blog and social media accounts furnish motivational quotes and an over-the-shoulder view of her unique perspective on profiting in business while helping others. Twyla has been named one of Cleveland Magazine’s Most Interesting People, a Cleveland Living Legend in 2010 and received the Divine Divas Award by the University of Texas and Pursuit of Dreams Foundation.

Twyla has received the Enterprising Women Of The Year Award. She has been featured in the June edition of Forbes Magazine. Her Twitter account and blog is listed as a 'Top 100' Homeland Security resource. During her speech at Winning the Battles in your Mind Black Tie Gala on June 27, 2015, Twyla received a standing ovation as she moved everyone including me as she told her story.